Not all criminals are the same; they all have different stories and reasoning’s as to why they are in trouble with the law in the first place. In some cases these criminals are being accused for something they didn’t intentionally do, have been wrongly accused of a crime, or they just simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course all criminals don’t deserve forgiveness but there are criminals who aren’t real criminals that would never commit another crime again, and do deserve a second chance and forgiveness. All people do bad things and make wrong choices but everyone deserves to be forgiven, even if they are a criminal. Firstly, for those people who get thrown in jail or prison for something they didn’t …show more content…
This could happen if someone was in the wrong place at the wrong time or framed by setting them up to look like they did a crime. There has been thousands of cases were there has been men and women who have been wrongly accused and have had to serve years and years in a jail or prison cell because they courts accused them of something they didn’t do. A great example of being wrongfully accused would be a woman named Gloria Killian, she was accused of a robbery and murder she had nothing to do with, and she was set up and served 16 years and four months. Gloria said “I’m innocent. I did not plan the robbery. I did not know those people. I was not involved. I am not the perpetrator”. The crime she was convicted of occurred in 1981, near Sacramento, California. What really happened was that two men had broken into the home of 71 year-old Ed Davies, who was a coin collector and kept a lot of gold and silver in his home. When people arrived on scene Ed was found dead on the kitchen floor. Within days, authorities got a tip and arrested career criminal Gary Masse and charged him with the Davies’ murder. Gloria says she never knew Masse, but when an anonymous tip mentioned her name and his together, she was arrested. She told police she had no idea who Gary was but they didn’t buy into her claims of innocence after they discovered a notebook …show more content…
Intent shows that if a person deserves forgiveness he will unintentionally make a mistake rather than commit a crime. And victims get wrongfully accused every day, but it takes a true person to forgive who wrongfully accused. One of the biggest concerns with ex criminals is recommitting a crime, but if there is enough effort to help stop criminals from recommitting crimes there will not be as many reoccurrences. I think everyone deserves a second chance because everyone makes mistakes, its human nature to make mistakes because were not perfect and never will